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ACCATTONE
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This is simply one of the most important films of the last 40 years, and a milestone in Italian filmmaking. A parable of redemption set in the slums of Rome, Accatone, "The Scrounger" (Franco Citti), lives as a thief, beggar and pimp. He's in love with Stella, tries to reform her, but fails. "Accattone!, the debut film of Pier Paolo Pasolini, is notable for its rough-edged style, its cool, unhysterical portrait of corruption, cruelty, and violence, and its quiet lyricism marked one of the most significant directorial debuts of the sixties" (Georges Sadoul). In Italian with English Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1961---120 mins.
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DECAMERON, THE
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The first part of Pasolini's "trilogy of life" (followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights) is based on the ribald tales of Boccaccio, which deal with human sensuality and artistic creation. Pasolini has refashioned the 100 tales into a collection of 11 sketches that are at the same time erotic, political, humorous and autobiographical. Pasolini himself appears in the role of the painter Giotto. In Italian with English subtitles. Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1971---111 mins.
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GOSPEL ACCORDING ST. MATTHEW
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Undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements of iconoclastic Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a moving, quasi-documentary recreation of the life of Christ that takes "the greatest story ever told" and fuses it with neorealist aesthetics. Using non-actors, cinema verite techniques, and shooting on location in Jerusalem, Pasolini grounds this epic tale with an immediacy like no other. "Magnificent . . . Stands today as the most dynamic version of the gospel story ever filmed" (David Cook, A History of Narrative Film). In Italian with English Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1964---136 mins.
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GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, THE
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One of the greatest achievements of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this moving quasi-documentary takes "the greatest story ever told" and fuses it with neorealist aesthetics.
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HAWKS AND SPARROWS
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A wildly comic fable, with the great Italian stone-faced clown Toto playing Everyman and Ninetto Davoli, his good natured but empty-headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene, as a counterpoint to the performers, representing humanity, as they progress down the road of life. The result is a major Pasolini film and a powerful, tragic fable that shows two delightful innocents caught, like many Italians, between the Church and Marxism. "Complex, mystical and fascinating" (New York Times). In Italian with English subtitles. Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1964---88 mins.
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LA RABBIA (THE ANGER)
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Between Mamma Roma and Gospel According to St. Matthew, Pasolini made this overlooked, two-part documentary with co-director Giovanni Guareschi. Over archival footage, Pasolini--the Marxist poet and filmmaker--and Guareschi--the more conservative journalist and creator of Don Camillo--offer competing commentaries on the state of postwar Europe.
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LOVE MEETINGS
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A witty and sensual investigation of sex in Italy, including impressive appearances by famed author Alberto Moravia and noted psychologist Cesare Musatti, conducted by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini appears as the interviewer with a wide range of individuals who share their tales of love--prostitution, homosexuality, marital and non-marital liaisons. In Italian with English Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1964---90 mins.
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MAMMA ROMA
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Anna Magnani gives a terrific performance in the title role of this key film. It was Pasolini's second feature but it is rarely seen. The story revolves around a former prostitute, played by Magnani, who gets a new chance for a different life. She does her best to help her son, Ettore, get ahead. He is mesmerized, however, by the evils of the big city, so she makes one last desperate attempt to get him a respectable job. In Italian with English Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1963---110 mins.
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MEDEA (PASOLINI)
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Soprano Maria Callas stars in Pasolini's dramatic, non-musical interpretation of Euripides' tragedy. "...Freudian themes through Marxist eyes" (Time Out).
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OEDIPUS REX (PASOLINI)
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In Pasolini's Golden Lion-nominated film, the director adds a prologue, epilogue, and much psychoanalytic insight to the play by Sophocles.
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PASOLINI SET VOL. 1 (3 DISCS)
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This set collects three of legendary Italian director Pier Palo Pasolini's films into one package. Included are the witty and sensual, Love Meetings (1964, 90 mins.), his adaptation of the classic Greek play, Oedipus Rex (1967, 110 mins.) and the beautifully strange, grotesque parable, Porcile (Pigsty) (1969, 99 mins.). A must for any fan of Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1964/1967/1969---299 mins.
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PASOLINI SET VOL. 2 (3 DISCS)
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Three films from acclaimed Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini are collected in this exclusive set. Pasolini's debut, Accattone! (1961, 120 mins.), is a milestone in Italian filmmaking. A parable of redemption set in the slums of Rome, the film follows the thief, beggar and pimp, Accattone (Franco Citti), as he tries to reform his love, Stella. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1964, 88 mins.) is a powerful, tragicomic fable which shows two delightful innocents caught between the Church and Marxism. Pasolini's moving epic, The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1965, 136 mins.), uses non-actors, rugged Southern Italian landscapes and towns, cinema-verite techniques, and expressive close-ups to present an anguished, determined Christ. All three films in Italian with English subtitles. Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1961-1965---344 mins.
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PORCILE (PIGSTY)
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Pasolini's remarkable film interweaves two storylines. In the first, a man wanders a medieval, war-ravaged countryside devouring the weak. In the second...
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SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
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Pasolini's extremely controversial last film is set in Mussolini's post-Nazi-fascist state, where sexual joy and normality are punished and perversion is rewarded.
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TEOREMA
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's breakthrough film, predicated on the theorem that "anything done by the bourgeoisie, however sincere and profound, and noble, is on the wrong track." Into the home of a classic bourgeois family walks in Terence Stamp, a stranger. Each one of the family--mother, father, son, daughter, maid--seeks and finds in the stranger a catalyst for the fulfillment of desire denied within the confines of the family structure. "Liberated thus by a moment of authenticity, each is left, on the visitor's departure, with a personal kind of madness, stripped naked in a symbolic desert." In Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini---Italy---1968---93 mins.
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WHOEVER SAYS THE TRUTH SHALL DIE (PASOLINI)
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A remarkable film on Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet, political personality, aesthetician and director of such important and controversial films as Gospel According to St. Matthew and Oedipus Rex. Director Bregstein explores whether Pasolini's murder at age 53 in 1975 was by Pino the Frog, a 17-year-old male prostitute, or an assassination by a group of right-wing fascists. In English and Italian with English subtitles.
Philo Bregstein---Netherlands---1981---60 mins.
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WITCHES, THE (1967)
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"One of the most obscure films we've featured, which is ironic since the film has one of the most influential movie icons in its cast and boasts the talents of three world-renowned directors. The film in question is The Witches, an Italian hodgepodge designed to rejuvenate the career of a waning star. That star was Silvana Mangano...Luchino Visconti directed the first segment, "The Witch Burnt Alive." Mangano plays a famous actress who arrives at a swank mountain resort, followed by a ravenous pack of paparazzi..."Community Spirit" finds Mangano as a motorist who offers to take a man injured in a car accident to the hospital...Next comes "Earth Seen From the Moon," directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. A lonely widower (the sublime Italian comic actor Toto) searches the countryside to find a woman who will become his wife...The whimsy of the Pasolini segment is abruptly followed by the fury of "The Sicilian" directed by Franco Rossi...The final segment comes from Vittorio De Sica. "A Night like Any Other" finds Mangano as the easily bored wife of a workaholic banker. She escapes into elaborate daydreams fashioned on the pop art style that was the vogue in the mid-1960s...The banker is played by, of all people, Clint Eastwood" (Phil Hall, Film Threat). In Italian with English subtitles.
Mauro Bolognini/Vittorio De Sica/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Franco Rossi/Luchino Visconti---Italy---1967---100 mins.
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